Monthly Archive:: March 2016

Data masking is a technique of forming an architecturally similar but unoriginal edition of a company’s data that can be utilized for functions like user training and software testing. The purpose is to guard the original data while having a practical replacement for events when the actual data is not requisite.

Data masking is not identical to limiting the visibility of data in production databases from the users who do not have authorized access to it. In that case, the information is there in the database and is only not perceptible to the unauthorized users. There are a number of …

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Every organization requires places to store corporate information and data. That data often incorporates assistance data such as- Personally Identifiable Information, Organization’s HR Data and Financial Information. The privacy and security of this information are very necessary. To meet the organization’s objectives of data security and compliance, there is a need to discover and assess the location of database vulnerabilities and the critical data.

• Examine the Vulnerabilities- It is necessary to understand the vulnerabilities that put databases to SQL injection exposure. Malware may consider exploiting well-known database vulnerabilities. The unpatched databases are made an easy target. Unsteady authentication rules can

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In recent years, protecting the organization’s crucial data in the non-production environment has turned out to be one of the critical functions. The sensitive and relevant information should be substituted with reasonable values. This permits production data to be securely used for testing, development, and outsource partners or other non-production uses.

Organizations have taken the data security threats seriously and have expanded to deal with these problems as fast as possible knowing the effects. Though the concept of merely eliminating sensitive data from non-production environment appears to be easy, it can cause severe challenges in a range of facets.

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A database firewall is designed to prevent particular kinds of traffic from passing through the external Internet network to the internal network. This facilitates the database administrators to manage what penetrates in the local network and keep unwanted data out. Besides filtering, this prevents internal users from transferring various forms of data, or transferring data to specified locations.

Application-layer firewalls can recognize the traffic passing through them and permit or refuse traffic based on the data content. Host-based firewalls intended to block unwanted content on the Web that is derived from keywords covered in the Web pages are a type …

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Ever since the advent of private and sensitive information, there have been attackers that have tried to reach that data and use it for malicious purposes.

Many data masking software have been developed to make the task of accessing sensitive data ineffective. Each of the techniques has their strengths and weaknesses with each technique typically being best applied to a specific data type.

Following are the key data masking tools:

• Substitution
  It refers to randomly substituting the contents of a column of data with entirely unrelated data, but the data looks identical to original data. Substitution is one of the

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